Joe French

Principal Associate

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What can I do for you

Joe specialises in professional liability claims involving solicitors, barristers, insolvency practitioners and financial service professionals.  He has extensive experience of working with individuals, firms and insurers and dealing with complex and high value litigation. Joe's work includes advising on policy terms and coverage disputes.  He represents his clients at mediations and by way of court advocacy and regularly presents seminars to professional clients and the insurance market.  

What do others say

Clients have said:
“Technically, he’s been great.”
“His friendly, calm demeanour has made him incredibly approachable.”
“He has proven to be extremely capable and has good knowledge of our business.”

Supporting your ambitions

Joe advised a major law firm in the defence of a multi-million pound claim concerning unsuccessful litigation funding schemes. The claim involved extremely technical regulatory, factual and legal matters. Working together with his clients, Joe was able to distil the issues into astute and clear advice. At the same time, Joe worked with a team of lawyers, in order to present a robust and tactically astute defence to the claim. The outcome was a favourable result for the client and a strong working relationship throughout.

Joe also spent six months seconded to a major insurer, gaining an invaluable insight into the needs of insurer clients.

What else should you know?

Joe was appointed as a Recorder in 2022, sitting in the Midlands Circuit.

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What our clients say about us

“I think Mills & Reeve are a wonderful firm. The support they have provided to us in a really difficult area has been brilliant, collaborative and commercially minded. The team were absolutely wonderful and a joy to work with. Amazing advice and support and a real collaborative effort with us. I can't thank them enough for getting us through some really tough times and doing so with an amazing can-do attitude.”

“They are friendly, fast, always available and always on top of the game. I tend to judge my legal team against the other side's legal team and never doubt Mills & Reeve is the better of the two.”

“All interactions have been very clear. Responses to questions have always been very swift and unambiguous. Our company, and my family, have used various services in Mills & Reeve with the same level of satisfaction.”

“I value the fact that Mills & Reeve are recognised as a good place to work in the UK Best Companies survey. This aligns with the values of our business and means that Mills & Reeve can share what is required to achieve this status with our business.”